Marculescu's paper, presented at ASP-DAC in 2003, is the very first to formally address the problem of energy-aware automatic mapping of IPs/cores onto a generic multicore platform where communication happens via the network-on-chip architecture. Over the years, it has greatly influenced follow-up work in academia and industry.

The award was presented earlier this month at ASP-DAC 2013 in Yokohama, Japan.